Lewis & Clark Libraries: Ethnic Studies: Primary Sources

Ethnic E-Collections

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window
Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
5.4 million cross-searchable pages: 12049 books, 170 serials, 71 manuscript collections, 377 supreme court records and briefs and 194 reference articles from Macmillan, Charles Scribner's Sons and Gale encyclopedias.
Links to websites, biographies, chronology, bibliographies, and information on key collections, to give users background and context for further research.
Collections published through partnerships with the Amistad Research Center, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the British Library, the National Archives in Kew, Oberlin College, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the University of Miami, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and many other institutions (updated July 2019)
Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984 This link opens in a new window
Declassified FBI primary source documents from the US government's surveillance of African-Americans.
Declassified FBI primary source documents from the US government's surveillance of African-Americans. Subsets include scanned FBI files on Malcolm X, Elijah Mohammed, Marcus Garvey, the Black Panther Party, SNCC, NAACP, Roy Wilkins, WEB Dubois, and Jesse Jackson.
American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism This link opens in a new window
Declassified FBI files on the evolution of the American Indian Movement and the growth of Native American protest and radicalism.
African American Newspapers (1827-1998) This link opens in a new window
Access for L&C College and Graduate School only. Full text for approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.
Approximately 270 newspapers from more than 35 states, including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window
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This collection brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Cases go into the 20th century, because long after slavery was ended, there were still court cases based on issues emanating from slavery.
Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers This link opens in a new window
A digital collection of Japanese relocation camp newspapers that record the concerns and the day-to-day life of the interned Japanese-Americans in World War II.
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: History, Culture & Law (formerly American Indian Law Collection) This link opens in a new window
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With more than 1,000 unique titles and more than 1,000,000 pages dedicated to American Indian Law, this collection includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence. This library also features rare compilations edited by Felix S. Cohen that have never before been accessible online.

Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources
These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic.

General E-Collections

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
ECCO delivers the full-text and page images of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) This link opens in a new window
19th Century Collections Online is an archival collection of including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more in both Western and non-Western languages.
19th Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on archival collections of primary sources providing full-text, fully searchable content. The collection includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more in both Western and non-Western languages.